Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
~ Ramez Naam
A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.
Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.
It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.
~ Kelly Dibenedetto
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?
For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
~ Jared Diamond
